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Steve McQueen
Le Mans Site
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Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country.
The country is France.
The drive is at 200MPH !!
This site is an attempt to gather images and thoughts about the region Steve McQueen lived in during the filming of the 1971 Le Mans film quoting brief passages for the purposes of review and so bring these images alive.......
Welcome to the Steve McQueen Le Mans Site. Launched on 13th Sept. 2001 and regularly updated.
"Steve McQueen: Le Mans in the Rearview Mirror," chronicles the iconic 1971 racing film with hundreds of never before seen photos taken by Don Nunley.
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2015)...Trailer
The hotel in Loue where the film crew and John Sturges lived during the filming of Le Mans. McQueen discussing the film at the hotel in Loue in 1970. Sturges and friends leave the hotel and McQueen drives away towards the nearby Chateau where he lived with his family in Vire-en-Champagne which can be viewed elsewhere on this website.
Steve McQueen in Le Mans city location, Cathedral of Le Mans in the background
Credit: Marie Fotini...
The
arrest of Steve Mcqueen by gendarmes in 1969 on the road of Le Mans
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http://www.autobild.de/videos/video-buch-unser-le-mans-2016-9429045.html
Steve McQueen with co-star: Siegfried Rauch and family...
"This is in
an economy in Hagen, a small village near Murnau. When the shooting was almost
finished, Steve stood in front of me and looked so funny. He did not say
anything, but I knew exactly what was wrong with him: the coming farewell made
him sad.
"What are you doing now?" He asked finally. I told him I was going home to
Bavaria. "Oh, Bavaria", he said - he knew the area from the shooting to "Busted
Chains". I asked him if he wanted to visit me. "Steve," I said, "come over, we
celebrate the baptism of my son, you will be his godfather and then you'll get
good sauerkraut." He loved sauerkraut.
A few weeks later, after a trip to Switzerland, he came to his baptism in his
911, together with his wife Neile and his son Chad. Actually, they only wanted
to stay three days, but two weeks. He did not want to go to the city to Munich,
but to the mountains for hiking. "You live here so fantastic," he said again and
again. I could not understand this at first, he lived in Beverly Hills and was a
giant star in the USA.
But Hollywood could not only create careers, but also destroy lives. His
marriage to Neile was crising at the time. I've seen in the shooting work that
he was constantly surrounded by women. He could not resist these temptations."
Siegfried Rauch
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